>>One can only answer such questions in a speculative, at hoc fashion. We>search nature as creatures and as such it is hard to know about the>preexisting Being. Knowledge of this Being comes partially by studying His>creation or else through revealed truths or else the Being-became-flesh>fashion. There is no other way.>

Then ID is not a science; it can only be either a theology or a philosophy.

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>>Again we are speculating. For all I know our reality may be a mere thought>in the mind of the Creator.>

So again ID is not a science, just some form of philosophy or theology.

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>>Many people claim that there is no spiritual dimension to man.>

According to your fish-in-water metaphor, we cannot know if there is a
spiritual dimension and we can never prove there is. Yet you maintain we
are the only known "detector" for such a dimension. That suggests to me
that we can indeed know if there is a spiritual dimension and we might even
be able to prove it.

>>I often>wonder what would it be like if we indeed became merely material--a blob of>matter. There certainly would not be thought or reasoning to pure matter.>

I would certainly like to see your evidence for that. However, if we can
never prove or even know that a spiritual dimension exists, then in point of
fact it may not exist, in which case pure matter obviously can develop
thought and reasoning.